Shortly after the election of Kevin Rudd to the office of federal Labor leader and Leader of the Opposition on 4 December 2006, O'Connor was appointed Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industrial Relations.

Again, pretending to be the operator of a phishing site, O'Connor said he was able to capture the so-called unique information from one of his machines and simply paste that into the Javascript request on another machine.

By combining either the challenge question or the security image associated with a given user and the device fingerprint, O'Connor said he, as the operator of a phishing site, could then request from the bank a persistent cookie.